Star Wars fans there is no doubt that in terms of out put we are living in a golden age weather or not everything the franchise puts out is good is really up to you but the brand has made lots of solid TV shows in the past and it's launching a new one and i'm here to give you my first impressions of the show so here is my first impressions of Star Wars Resistance.
Since this is a first impressions post and not a full on review i'm not going to going to look on Wikipedia to get the story instead i'm going to look at the first three episodes and try and work out what the story could possibly and from what i've seen the story could be Kaz is sent by star pilot Poe Dameron to be a spy for the resistance.
There might be more to it since there's only been three episodes released tho that's the best I can work out and I have to say that that set up isn't that bad since it does open the show up to plenty of fun situations but it doesn't feel like a Star Wars story it instead feels like something you'd see in a bad Star Wars rip off.
Starring in these episodes is Christopher Sean as Kazuda Xiono , Bobby Moynihan as Orka , Suzie McGrath as Tam Ryvora , Scott Lawrence as Jarek Yeager , Myrna Velasco as Torra Doza , Josh Brener as Neeku Vozo , Mary Elizabeth McGlynn as Freya Fenris and Lex Lang as Major Vonreg. Please note that the actors i've listed are all playing new characters since I want to talk about a few other actors next up and I will say that the new cast do a fairly solid job in these episodes it's hard for me to fully judge the actors since there's only been three episodes released but so far they are doing a good job.
This series does have a few guest stars with two appearing in the series first two episodes so returning from The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi is Oscar Isaac as Poe Dameron and Gwendoline Christie as Captain Phasma but also joining them is Frodo Baggins as Jace Rucklin and according to Wikipedia Kylo Ren will also show up in the series. I have to say it's freaking cool as hell hearing new dialog from both Oscar and Gwendoline since we have well over a year before the next movie comes out so hearing something new from those characters is truly a good thing and it helps that there performances are honestly really decent.
Now then there's a chance that the animation for the show was done by either Polygon Pictures or Lucasfilm Animation since both are listed on Wikipedia but only Lucasfilm Animation is listed on IMDB either way tho the animation is fairly decent i'm not a big fan of what looks like cell shading to me it just doesn't fit in with other Star Wars TV shows but at the same time we do have alot of nice fluid movements and the animation does help sell some of the comedy.
This show was sold on the premise of it being "anime inspired" which to me says it's going to look like an anime not only is that not the case but outside of the way the comedy is done in these episodes I can't really see any anime inspiration at all if anything it looks to be inspired by other western animated shows like Avatar and Korra that's not a bad thing but when you say something is going to be anime inspired then that needs to show in the episodes.
I know that there technically is some controversy surrounding this show and if you don't know what I mean the voice actress for Leia (who doesn't speak a word in these first three episodes) did something bad on twitter i'm not going to go into detail as to what but lets just say that it's led to people to start petitions for her to be dropped and for the role to be recast.
Do those people know how freaking hard that would be since the actress in question most likely has the whole first season recorded and the animation done to her mouth movements so to recast the role would cost Disney and Lucasfilm a lot of money in making corrections to the animation i'm not saying that she should go unpunished far from it but it has to be a punishment which not only makes sense but also doesn't cost either company alot of money.
If your sick of the girl centric short series Forces Of Destiny and the way that it pushes the girls to the front at the expense of telling interesting stories or focusing on why the female characters were great to begin with then you'll be happy because here while there are female characters they have equal screen time with the male characters and they aren't force to be center stage either since the focus is more on telling an interesting story then shoving the female characters to the front and yes I am a fan of Forces Of Destiny but even I have to admit that it gets a little hard to watch at times.
The first episode was forty four minuets long and I saw no reason what so ever for that to be the case there was no reason why episode one couldn't have been twenty two minuets i'm not a script writer so i'm not sure what you could have lost in that opening episode but it stands to reason that if your opening episode is an hour long special then there needs to be something in there to justify that choice otherwise what's the point.
You might have noticed that several times during this review i've said the word episodes well that's because hours before the series was due to premier on Disney Channel the company released the first three episodes on the Disney App because caring about ratings is dumb but tho it also meant that this first impressions could be brought out a lot quicker then what it would have but it's odd that Disney Channel would be airing this series instead of Disney XD which will be getting the series but at a later date.
I'm not 100% sure on this but this show does contain music from Michael Tavera who's done plenty of work on other animated projects but this is his first project that has anything to do with Star Wars and I have to say that his theme to me doesn't scream Star Wars for example when I hear the opening to Rebels I know i'm watching a Star Wars product here tho the theme sounds like it belongs on a kid friendly sitcom then it does Star Wars.
Overall these first three episodes were really fun and I hope that the rest of the series is fun but unlike both The Clone Wars and Rebels this one isn't going to have direct involvement from Star Wars legend Dave Filoni since he was working on the final episodes of Rebels and is now working on the final season of The Clone Wars and yes I will do a review of this series later on into it's run and i'm not going to give it a rating.